Cold Lake staff at Cenovus Energy, an oil company, collected approximately 5,000 pounds of food for the Cold Lake Food Bank during a month-long food drive in October as part of the company’s annual Thanks & Giving campaign.

Another 5,000 pounds of food was collected for the Bonnyville Native Friendship Centre.

It’s the eighth straight year that Cenovus employees have dedicated the month of October to volunteering in the communities where they live and work in honour of the Thanksgiving season.

Cenovus’s Thanks & Giving campaign also encourages employees to plan their donations for the year by giving to registered charities that are meaningful to them. In turn, Cenovus matches their donations dollar for dollar to a maximum of $25,000 per employee, per year.

Since 2010, Cenovus employees have donated more than $15 million, including the company match, volunteered more than 2,800 hours of their time, donated almost 68,000 pounds of food and supported over 1,000 organizations during the Thanks & Giving campaign.